New format/fwrite options

[Richard Carlsson]

On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Robert Virding wrote:

> Eshell V2001.09.13  (abort with ^G)
> 1> io:fwrite("~#~n", [4711]).                     %Default is 8
> 8#11147

Great. I agree that 8 is a good default.

> 6> io:fwrite("~b~n", [4711]).                     %Default is 32 bits
> 00000000000000000001001001100111
> ok
> 7> io:fwrite("~b~n", [-4711]).
> 11111111111111111110110110011001

Terrific.

> I think you get the idea.  The only real question I think is if it
> should be the precision field which gives the number of relevant
> bits in ~b/x or the field width.  It might be bit of an overkill to
> have both field width and "precision".  Comments?

Definitely the precision. Field width is a parameter of, well, the field
size (duh), while precision is the "rendering" parameter.

	/Richard


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